Animated pedagogical agents are life-like characters used as cognitive tools to support student learning. Pedagogical agents are better substitutes for the expert/tutor module of a traditional intelligent tutoring system as they provide sophisticated, real-time problemsolving advice with strong visual appeal that make learning more engaging and effective. In addition to this, animated pedagogic...

This research aims to implement an intelligent tutoring system with multiple co-operative strategies involving several pedagogical agents (for instance: tutor, co-tutor, companion, ...). Such agents are able to play different pedagogical roles, consequently, we called them actors. We describe a general architecture for actors, and illustrate it in the context of a new strategy : learning by dis...

This paper describes a series of efforts in building and conceptualizing software agents for distributed collaborative learning. The agents are referred to as pedagogical agents. We have integrated pedagogical agents within two collaborative environments, TeamWave Workplace and Future Learning Environment. The role of agents in these environments differs from past work on software agents in the...

Because of e-learning environments characteristics of learners include isolation from the instructor or peer learners, therefore providing social cues or emotional feedback has been seriously considered by inserting pedagogical agents into digital contents. However, there exists controversies for introducing pedagogical agents into digital contents, pros are fostering learner motivation and lea...

In recent years, the term agent has been incorporated to the vocabulary of mainstream Computer Science (CS), used to name from simple system process to highly skilled software/hardware resembles, denoting an entity created to perform either a specific task or set of tasks. Such a wide notion is straighten in Artificial Intelligence (AI), where researchers are interested in a notion that confers...

MathGirls is a pedagogical-agent-based environment designed for high-school girls learning introductory algebra. Since females are in general more interested in interactive computing and more positive about the social presence of pedagogical agents, the environment provides a girl-friendly social learning environment, where pedagogical agents encourage the girls to build constructive views of l...

Knowledge-based learning environments provide an ideal testbed for developing and evaluating computational models of mixed initiative interaction. In each problem-solving episode, learners incrementally develop solutions for problems posed by the environment. To maximize learning e ectiveness and learning e ciency, we have been developing animated pedagogical agents that dynamically provide exp...

This paper introduces the learning environment MathGirls for high school girls learning fundamentals of algebra. Grounded in social cognitive theories of learning, MathGirls utilizes pedagogical agents to create a girl-friendly virtual learning environment. The design constituents of pedagogical agents are reviewed. These constituents are likely to influence building agent/learner relations. Th...